Sheila Mulloy (née O'Malley; 1922 – September 29, 2013) was an
Irish
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writer and historian.
Mulloy was born in
Galway
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in 1922 and moved to
Paris
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in 1945 to take up a scholarship to study at the
Sorbonne
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. In 1949 she married John Mulloy, a businessman of
Westport, with whom she had eight children.
Mulloy was editor of ''Cathair na Mart'', the journal of the Westport Historical Society, founded by the late Jarlath Duffy and Peadar Ó Flanagáin in 1981. She was also elected Chief of the O'Malley clan.
Mulloy died on September 29, 2013, at the age of 91.
Bibliography
*''Franco-Irish Correspondence 1688–1692'', editor,
Irish Manuscripts Commission
The Irish Manuscripts Commission was established in 1928 by the newly founded Irish Free State with the intention of furthering the study of Ireland's manuscript collections and archives. Its foundation was primarily motivated by the loss of many h ...
, 1984, .
*''O'Malley:People and Places'', Ballinakella Press, 1986.
*''Victory or Glorious Defeat:Biographies of participants in the Mayo Rebellion of 1798'', editor, 2010, .
References
External links
*http://www.mayonews.ie/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10112:book-review-1798-mayo-rebellion&catid=51:staying-in&Itemid=145
*https://web.archive.org/web/20110721130254/http://originalwriting.ie/bookshop/non-fiction/local-history/victory-or-glorious-defeat-biographies-of-participants-in-the-mayo-rebellion-of-1798/
*https://web.archive.org/web/20110629134136/http://archives.tcm.ie/westernpeople/2010/06/30/story46735.asp
20th-century Irish historians
21st-century Irish historians
Irish women non-fiction writers
Writers from County Mayo
Writers from County Galway
1922 births
2013 deaths
Irish expatriates in France
People from Westport, County Mayo
University of Paris alumni
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